بخشش

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ḤLKWN-šn'), [Book Pahlavi needed] (bhššn'‎ /baxšišn/, “bestowal, distribution”). By surface analysis, بخش‎ +‎ ـش‎. Akin to Old Armenian բաշխիշ (bašxiš), an Iranian borrowing.

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /baxʃiʃ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /baxʃɪʃ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /bæxʃeʃ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /baxʃiʃ/

بخشش • (baxšeš)

1. gift, donation
2. lot, bestowal
3. bounty, tip, baksheesh
4. mercy, generosity
5. forgiveness, pardon

• بخشیدن‎ (baxšidan)

• → Azerbaijani: bəxşiş
• → Bengali: বখশিশ (bôkhśiś), বকশিশ (bôkśiś)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بخشش‎ (bahşiş)
  • Turkish: bahşiş

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բաշխիշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 412a
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 235
• Nyberg, H. S. (1974), “baxšišn”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 45b
• Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 56

From Persian بخشش‎ (baxšeš).

بخشش • (baxšaš)

1. pardon